Willamette Law is pleased to recognize and celebrate Tristan Kelly ’24 (2L) as the College’s 2022 recipient of the Oregon State Bar (OSB) Labor & Employment Section Summer Student Stipend. He spent the summer as a law clerk at the Commons Law Center in the estate planning and probate department.
This is the second year the OSB Labor & Employment Section made gifts to each of Oregon’s three law schools to financially support students interested in pursuing labor and employment-related work over the summer. The goal of the stipend is to ensure that current law students interested in labor and employment law can take advantage of internships, many of which are otherwise unpaid.
Dennis Westlind, member of the Labor & Employment Law Stipend Committee and managing partner at Bullard Law, said the OSB Section sought to “create opportunities to give back to the community and to law students by encouraging their participation in non-profit, public, and other types of labor and employment law.” Westlind himself has for many years been involved in mentoring new lawyers, law students, and associates in the Labor & Employment law field.
The stipend program provides an opportunity for the recipients to have access to a mentoring lawyer as they navigate both the summer internships and decisions about their future legal careers. Participating in the Committee and mentoring the recipients is an opportunity to give back and support students who are currently in the position...
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